Associate Project Leader - Design Assurance - Columbus, OH

Working at Abbott

Our nutrition business develops science-based nutrition products for people of all ages, from helping babies and children grow to keeping adult bodies strong and active. Millions of people around the world count on our leading brands – including Similac®, Pedia Sure®, Pedialyte®, Ensure®, and Glucerna® – to help them get the nutrients they need to live their healthiest lives.

At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and family, be your true self and live a full life. You will also have access to:

• Training and career development
  , with onboarding programs for new employees and tuition assistance.
• Financial security through competitive compensation, incentives, and retirement plan
• Health care and well-being programs including medical, dental, vision, wellness and occupational health programs,
  Medical Benefits start day 1.
• Vacation – 3 weeks accrued vacation (1st yr. is prorated) + vacation buy program + 5 personal days + 10 paid holidays.
• 401(k) retirement savings with a generous company match of 5% per pay plus an additional 3% on an annual basis.
• Tuition reimbursement, the Freedom 2 Save student debt program and FreeU education benefit - an affordable and convenient path to getting a bachelor’s degree.
• A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries around the world and named one of the most admired companies in the world by Fortune.
• A company that is recognized as one of the best big companies to work for as well as a best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.
• The stability of a company with a record of strong financial performance and history of being actively involved in local communities.

Our location in Columbus, OH, currently has an opportunity for an Associate Project Leader - Design Assurance

The Design Assurance Associate Project Leader will work with product development teams to assure the quality, safety, and efficacy of our products from development through commercialization. The Project Leader needs to be team oriented, agile, innovative and able to anticipate and mitigate risks. The Project Leader delivers timely, fact based, decisions focused on assuring quality products.

The successful candidate works with their functional group peers and managers to define Design Assurance related deliverables to ensure successful scale up to commercial scale manufacturing (successful FLTS process). Together with R&D, Technical Centers and Plant operations the incumbent assesses critical to quality attributes and ensures the manufacturability of new formulations and products.

This position reports to the Manager, Global Design Assurance. Ensures that all Abbott Nutrition products meet the highest standards for quality required by regulations and is responsible for determining trends in the supply chain and adapting or transforming quality processes to achieve breakthrough improvements. Interruption in the distribution of products can result if these efforts are not well planned and coordinated across the business.

• Assures that the design and testing for all Abbott Nutritional products are fully compliant with applicable regulations
• Facilitates product technical risk management activities through product development stages
• Utilizes Food Science knowledge to assure design, evaluate risk and successful manufacture.
• Monitors product, process and package quality performance and identifies quality related issues and trends.
• Works with multiple functions including Supply Chain, R&D, Operations, and Regulatory.
• Works on problems of medium scope that can have significant business impact
• Identify/gain agreement on design criteria, negotiate compromises, balance quality with other criteria across all functional areas
• Displays working knowledge of relationships between regulations, labeling, process and product.
• Displays working knowledge of applicable product regulations and policies Assures food safety through the use of HACCP and Microbiological knowledge

• Bachelor of Science degree in engineering, technical, or science field required.
• Prefere…